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On the recordSeptember 29, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 245 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--10 Capito Cassidy Cramer Daines Kaine Marshall Sanders Scott (SC) Smith Stabenow The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly).…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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